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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00292	To the most honourable assembly of the Commons House in Parliament the humble petition of English marchants, trading into Spaine and France.		1612 (1612)	STC 10413.5; ESTC S3058	2,581	1

¶ To the most Honourable Assembly of the Commons House in Parliament ¶ The Humble petition of English Marchants trading into Spaine and France Humbly sheweth 1 THat the Subsidie due to his Maiesty for one Tunne of French wine is 3. shillings being filled at the landing of the same 2 The English Marchants of London are now constrained to pay for euery Tunne that shal be landed be the Caske but halfe full 3. shillings Subsidie 42. shillings impost and 15. shillings for composition of purueyance which charge of purueyance is payd onely in London port and began but lately They also are compelled to pay 3. pounds vpon euery two pipes of Conneacke wines which vsually doe want 7. Cesternes and as much for euery 4. Hogsheads of High Countrey wines when indeed 5. of them filled vp doe not containe one Tunne of Assise The Maligo and Canary Caske are also well knowne to be both vndergage 3 The farme of sweet wines which sometimes allowed 15. doth now allow 12. in the 100 for leakadge and all empty or refused Caske euen to marchant strangers as by an order of the 15. of Nouemb. 1612. appeares which sayd sweet wines do pay no greater duties and yet are knowne to be much more durable and of better worth The vse of former time hath beene to make some restitutution or allowance to the Marchant for impost of such eager and decayed wines as should remaine on his hands vnsold at the yeeres end which is now nothing at all regarded or considered of 4 The wisedome of Parliament anno 1. Rich. 3. did ordaine euery Tunne to containe 252. gallons the butte or pipe 126. and the hogshead 63. according to which measure his Maiesties Officers should receiue subsidie and duties and for more certainty euery port Towne hath a sworne Officer to gadge all wines and oyles before the Marchants can expose them to sale vpon paine of forfeiture that the Subiects might be no more deceiued in gadge of Caske as formerly they were 5 The Farmers of the Customes against all Law and equity doe force the sayd Merchants to pay subsidie and other duties for full vessels though often vndergadge vnseene or vnladen when many of them want halfe their wine and thereby receiue 4 pounds at least where 3 pound is not truly due or els will not suffer the marchant to land his goods but seise them as forfeit for none custome 6 The Marchants being in great bonds to them for these duties made in his Maiesties name fearing to offend the Farmers and to hazard their credits and estates by sudden extents and willing to preuent the spoile and perishing of their goods are forced to yeeld without any penalty or remedy against the Farmers so vnkindly and vnreasonable oppression May it therefore please this most high Court in tender regard of the premisses to take such course and order for ease and reliefe of your Suppliants sayd greeuance as to your most graue wisedomes shall seeme meet and indifferent And they as in duty shall daily pray for the long health and happinesse of so prudent prouident and compassionate an Assemblie Signed by William Bond William Spight William Palmer Thomas Boothby Thomas Frier Richard Archdal Henry Kinnerslie Iohn Dade Nicholas Smith F●ancis Taylor Edward Browne Thomas Wetherall Conway Manlye George Benson Humfrey Slany Thomas Bewley Marmaduke Rawdon George Langham Iohn Sherington Iohn Worsop Clement Harby Richard Wiseman Francis Samborne Tho. Walton Henry Lee Thomas Hanson William Attwill Henry Lee Nathaniel Peacocke Iohn Papril Iohn Hall William Bonham Christopher Barnes Thomas Eyre Thomas Hampson Richard Barnabee Francis Haddon Richard Symmes George Porter William Gonnell William Peacocke Thomas Slingesbye Iohn Crabbe Richard Trauis Thomas Gilberd Charles Atye Roger Iackson ¶ The copy of an Order set downe at the Councell Table for Marchant strangers WHereas vpon a petition heeretofore exhibited to this Bord by the English Marchants of London trading Spaine and other places for sweet wines concerning an allowance to bee made vnto them for leakage it was thought fit after diuers hearings of the cause to order That there should be an allowance made vnto them of 12 in the 100. by his Maiesties Farmers of the impost of such sweet wines as they brought into the port of London as by the sayd order more at large appeareth And whereas the Marchant strangers of the City of London are in like manner sutors to the Bord for an allowance to bee made vnto them for leakeage according as heeretofore hath alwayes beene vsed being otherwise hardly able to driue a trade in that commodity in regard of the double Subsidie buttleridge and other duties which they pay for those wines whereof the English are altogether freed and exempted Their Lordships hauing considered aswell of their petition as the answer thereunto made by his Maiesties Farmer and being informed That they haue alwaies had the same allowance heeretofore for leakage as hath beene made vnto the English and that in regard of the double subsedies and buttleridge which they pay the proportion of difference will still hold to the aduantage of the natiue Marchants It is therefore this day ordered That his Maiesties Farmer of the impost of sweet wines shall make the like allowance of 12 in the 100 of the old impost and subsidie onely for leakage of such wines contayned in his Lease as shall bee brought into this kingdome by the sayd Marchant strangers in such manner and forme as is made vnto the English marchants And it is likewise ordered That such Caske as is out end for end or left for fraught shal be likewise allowed vnto them Prouided neuerthelesse That for such sweet wines as are brought into this Realme by the sayd merchants either out of France or the Low Countreyes allowance is to be made of 5 in the 100 as in former times hath beene vsed And it is also ordered for the auoyding of any further difference in this behalfe That the sayd Marchants do fill no wines on boord after they come into this Realme Sunday the 15. of Nouember 1612. Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Chancellour Duke of Lennox Lord Admirall Lord Chamberlaine Earle of Worcester Earle of Pembroke Lord Priuie Seale Lord Wootton Lord Stanhop Lord Knolles Sir Iohn Harbert Sir Iulius Cesar ¶ The copy of a Letter to Sir Iohn Swinnerton Knight then L. Maior of London WEe did not expect to haue found such difficulty in your Lordship in submitting your selfe to the Order lately made on the behalfe of Marchant strangers concerning the leakage of sweet wines being done vpon so iust grounds and agreeable to the vsage of former times and that with as much indifferency and respect to your Lo. as the cause would beare but forasmuch as the sayd Marchants are much damnified in such wines as are now ready to be discharged in that port of London and cannot bee landed but by order from your Lordship We doe heereby require you for the auoyding of any further preiudice therein to signe such warrants as shal be meet for the landing of the sayd wines vpon security giuen by them for payment of such dueties as are due vpon the same wherin we haue thought meet likewise to mooue your Lordship not to stand too strictly vpon security they shall offer in respect they may be strangers otherwise knowne to bee sufficient for the same And so expecting due performance heereof without further trouble to this Bord we bid you c. Sunday the 23. of Nouember 1612. Lord priuie Seale Lord Chamberlaine Earle of Worcester Lord Zouch Lord Wootton Sir Iulius Cesar